Shreveport architecture a pleasant mix

4:11 PM,
Feb. 4, 2014

Fair Park High School in Shreveport.

Written by

John Andrew Prime
jprime@gannett.com

Noted architect Chris Coe left Shreveport and Northwest Louisiana in the 1980s to find challenges, but his work designing homes, offices and skyscrapers around the world finally led him back to his home town.

During recent visits to family members, he had occasion to drive by a lost gem of architecture the city holds, a diamond in the rough that Coe eventually bought and plans to restore. It's the William Wiener-designed International style bungalow known to the architectural world as the Preston House, after the local businessman who commissioned the house in 1934.